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Monday, September 8, 2014

Cover Reveal: THE SWEETNESS: A Novel by Sande Boritz Berger

As
Berger's novel moves back and forth from Vilna to Brooklyn, the focus
is on Rosha and Mira as well as on Charlie's sister Jeanette. All three
attempt to make sense of a life that often makes no sense at all.
VERDICT: In this engaging debut, a semifinalist for Amazon's annual
Breakthrough Novel Award, readers gain three different views of the
effects of World War II on ordinary people.

Despite
the title, bitterness is the dark driving force in this stirring debut
novel of Holocaust survivor guilt-guilt about being safe. Told with
candor and tenderness, there are two parallel stories of Jewish
girls-one a teen, one an eight year old- from the same family but
worlds apart during WWII.

Hazel Rochman,

Booklist

A
Jewish girl in Eastern Europe and her teenage American cousin
experience the Holocaust years in vastly different ways in this
bittersweet novel.... A tender look at immigrants in America and Nazi
victims in Europe succeeds in educating and engaging readers.

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